How? I didn't get to accept, it just notified me that he had added me as a contact and suddenly I had a new entry in my own contacts list

Or did you mean "I accepted" as "I did not instantly delete him from my contacts"?

Nope gave me the option to add him as a contact, which is the only way I know of to accept a friend invite. Definitely wasn't an automatic automated acceptance...except maybe the entire gdev membership invite he seems to have stumbled onto.

How? I didn't get to accept, it just notified me that he had added me as a contact and suddenly I had a new entry in my own contacts list

Or did you mean "I accepted" as "I did not instantly delete him from my contacts"?

Nope gave me the option to add him as a contact, which is the only way I know of to accept a friend invite. Definitely wasn't an automatic automated acceptance...except maybe the entire gdev membership invite he seems to have stumbled onto.

Hmm, must be a hidden option in the account control panel somewhere I guess. I'll try and hunt it down tomorrow if nobody has found an explanation before then.

“If I understand the standard right it is legal and safe to do this but the resulting value could be anything.”

Hmm, must be a hidden option in the account control panel somewhere I guess. I'll try and hunt it down tomorrow if nobody has found an explanation before then.

Same thing happened to me. Looks like there is a "contact approval" checkbox in profile settings. I just checked mine.

Holding steady at 596. At first I thought the bug was that the friends list is only displaying 1 result per page, but the paging is expecting 100 results per page. The first few pages only have 1 result while the last few pages have none. But at least some of the pages "in the middle" have a full 100 contacts.

Is anyone else seeing the display error Eck mentions where the "friend list" only displays a single entry per page? If anyone who is experiencing this could let us know their browser version and OS it would be a big help, as I've been unable to replicate it so far.

As for how this member is adding so many friends, I'm not sure, but we'll take a look at it -- as it is, adding another user as a contact doesn't really provide him with any special access or abilities that he doesn't have otherwise, so it's relatively harmless. I'll certainly keep an eye on the account for any more malicious behaviour though!

Please "report to moderator" if you receive or see any spam from this or any other member and it'll be handled as promptly as possible.

I found out I had automatically accepted the friend request too (cancelled it now).

It's a bit suspicious that he sends friendship requests to thousands of people yet hasn't posted anything. It's just advertising for his website (which I really don't want to click on since the friend request thing was obviously some kind of hack, so I don't trust the website).

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